Head Start Act

ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS

Sec. 644. [42 U.S.C. 9839]

(a)(1) Each Head Start agency shall observe standards of organization, management, and administration that will ensure, so far as reasonably possible, that all program activities are conducted in a manner consistent with the purposes of this subchapter and the objective of providing assistance effectively, efficiently, and free of any taint of partisan political bias or personal or family favoritism. Each such agency shall establish or adopt rules to carry out this section, which shall include rules to assure full staff accountability in matters governed by law, regulations, or agency policy. Each agency shall also provide for reasonable public access to information, including public hearings at the request of appropriate community groups and reasonable public access to books and records of the agency or other agencies engaged in program activities or operations involving the use of authority or funds for which it is responsible.

(2) Each Head Start agency shall make available to the public a report published at least once in each fiscal year that discloses the following information from the most recently concluded fiscal year, except that reporting such information shall not reveal personally identifiable information about an individual child or parent:

(A) The total amount of public and private funds received and the amount from each source. 

Agency Audit

(B) An explanation of budgetary expenditures and proposed budget for the fiscal year. 

Head Start Explanation of Budgetary Expenditures

Early Head Start Explanation of Budgetary Expenditures

Agency Audit

2010 Head Start/Early Head Start Proposed Budget

2011 Head Start/Early Head Start Proposed Budget

Agency Proposed Budget

(C) The total number of children and families served, the average monthly enrollment (as a percentage of funded enrollment), and the percentage of eligible children served. 

Agency Annual Report

(D) The results of the most recent review by the Secretary and the financial audit. 

Little Dixie Head Start/Early Head Start 2008 Federal Review Report

Agency Audit

(E) The percentage of enrolled children that received medical and dental exams. 

Agency Annual Report

(F) Information about parent involvement activities. 

Agency Annual Report

(G) The agency's efforts to prepare children for kindergarten. 

Agency Annual Report

(H) Any other information required by the Secretary.